Xbox Live Stalker

I was playing Halo Reach at 4 in the morning, doing a full rotation through the various game modes (Swat had always been my favourite) its a game of strategic coordination and communication between players, although it was hard to find a player with a working microphone who didn’t think socialising with his xbox live buddies was more important then an all out fight to the death. Anyway during these battles I would often feel a bit mischievous and betray one of my team mates until he or she kicked me from the match. This would be an action I would soon regret..
I had finally just gotten into a game after being temporarily banned (for whatever reason) and it’s fair to say I was feeling a little rage for being banned and thought I could take it out by betraying my team and killing random team mates.We spawned in them game and I found someone to kill, his gamertag was A_Bad_Don. At first glance this appeared to be a really shitty reference to The Godfather and the guy thought he was pretty bad,I’d noticed he hadn’t moved since the game started therefore I thought he wasn’t playing, this kind of took the fun out of it. I killed him and didn’t get kicked from the game to no surprise as the guy was idle,I carried on killing him until he eventually picked his controller up and started to play the game. He moved exactly when I shot him in the head and killed him, this must have enraged the guy as after that I remember him killing me several times but I refused to kick him as it was only fair that he got payback, I then backed out of the game and joined a game of Halo’s equivalent of ground war from call of duty and I noticed he joined the same lobby as me.. This was slightly odd to say the least but I figured that it would just be some random coincidence and that everything would be okay, we started the game he started attacking me, obviously I fought back but his shield wouldn’t go down and I eventually died, I backed out of that game and went straight to some call of duty because there’s nothing better to do then camp in one corner and kill anyone who intrudes and I did that, but I noticed the first person to come in to the room I was camping in was A_Bad_Don and he was on the enemy team, He shot me once and killed me, that was after I shot him several times in the head. Furious at this I turned my xbox 360 off and phoned xbox support and I asked to have a gamertag banned for moddifying the game to his own gain, we went through the whole system of questions and I read the gamertag out to her, she searched for him and then she gave me some news that made my blood run cold. She told me there was no such user as A_Bad_Don and to stop phoning the support group, I told her I hadn’t and she told me that she got three calls from people claiming to have been harassed by this gametag. At this point I began to question if that night had been a dream. I did some researching the following night to find any other encounters of A_Bad_Don… Then it hit me.. A_Bad_Don but there where no results.. any forum threads had been removed by the user and all videos of him had been removed from youtube.. I did find one.. on a website full of leaks, I watched it. The video consists of a few friends in a call of duty modern warfare 3 game in which this stumble upon A_Bad_Don he stands there whilst the the three guys taunt him buy shooting him and ‘tea bagging’ next to him at which point a loud screech is heard and the three players controllers disconnect and won’t come back on, they’re forced to look at what happens next, A_Bad_Don’s player stretches and all of the limbs twist in unnatural ways even for a video game, then his face stretches and twist in its own way, a way so sickening it would force anybody to turn away.. but they couldn’t they were forced to watch it twist further as A_Bad_Don screeches and twists then suddenly all three players are disconnected in perfect synchronization. Nothing was ever heard from the three players after this video, any and all attempts to contact them are ignored. It is unknown whether the three teens are alive at this point. All I know is if you should ever encounter A_Bad_Don.. please ignore him… he wants your attention, Think about it, His name is A Bad Don.

The rest of the story… well, it was a cliched, wall of text vidya gaem pasta with an overuse of ellipses. Next!

Master

This is another reason I don’t have a fucking Xbox and what does A_Bad_Don mean? A batton? Say it really fast and it makes that word. You were being stalked by a batton.

A Zergling (Missing His Tophat)

hey shitty video game moster, stay on CoD please? if we had less of those kind of people in our community…

A Zergling (Missing His Tophat)

also, if you get kicked from a game for obvious reasons and take out your rage on random people trying to have fun, fuck you and get back on your little Cock of Doody.
halo, starcraft, etc. dont need your kind around

Anonymous

And yet I feel the real monster in this story was the author. (Seriously, team killing is not cool).

I returned to this story in order to make a joke about one of the most recent commenters here, who had coincidentally (perhaps) the same username as the monster in this story. But y’know what? WELCOME BACK TO PAST THE SAUCE WHERE WE CRITIQUE STORIES FROM SIx months ago. Okay, I’ll admit, generally we go for 2-3 years back, but hey I guess our standards have lowered since then. Let’s begin!

‘I was playing Halo Reach at 4 in the morning,’ – ONE OUTTA TEN STRAIGHT OFF THE BAT

‘ its a game of strategic coordination and communication between players, although it was hard to find a player with a working microphone who didn’t think socialising with his xbox live buddies was more important then an all out fight to the death.’ – A game about teamwork?? Pfft, you’re more likely to find an online player who just calls you offensive slurs than works together than you. Besides, this falls under rule #2 of the old crappypasta rules: “If you’re writing a story based off an existing computer game/movie/etc., make sure it’s something people know about, or is at least explained decently to the audience”. Otherwise, they won’t understand what the hell you’re talking about. Moving on!

‘ Anyway during these battles I would often feel a bit mischievous and betray one of my team mates until he or she kicked me from the match. This would be an action I would soon regret..’ – Way to make your character unlikeable straight off the bat…

‘ I was feeling a little rage for being banned and thought I could take it out by betraying my team and killing random team mates.’ – Wouldn’t that just make it worse? You’d get in even more trouble.

‘ his gamertag was A_Bad_Don. At first glance this appeared to be a really shitty reference to The Godfather’ – Perhaps it’s just my brain working as usual, but I can’t think of a single person who’d see the Godfather reference before the obvious occult ‘Abaddon’ reference. Like, seriously.

‘He moved exactly when I shot him in the head and killed him, this must have enraged the guy as after that I remember him killing me several times’ – Absolutely nothing spooky has happened yet in the slightest. This story is boring. Why am I still reading?

‘Halo’s equivalent of ground war from call of duty’ – Something I don’t know about, and two games I don’t care about. See rule #2.

‘but I noticed the first person to come in to the room I was camping in was A_Bad_Don and he was on the enemy team, He shot me once and killed me, that was after I shot him several times in the head.’ – You pissed him off by killing him several times so he followed you onto a different server and used hacks to kill you as stress relief. There, explained, nothing spooky about it FOX MULDER WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT UP anyway moving on.

‘ she told me that she got three calls from people claiming to have been harassed by this gametag.’ – She got three calls about a user that supposedly doesn’t exist. I think they would have started looking for a hacker by this point.

‘A_Bad_Don’s player stretches and all of the limbs twist in unnatural ways even for a video game, then his face stretches and twist in its own way, a way so sickening it would force anybody to turn away’ – Finally, something even slightly spooky. But since this is just in a video online, you could easily dismiss it as a hoax or staged. Seriously, once again, nothing scary.

All in all: Game I couldn’t care about in the slightest, events that are easily dismissed as not paranormal in the slightest, protagonist I couldn’t like or relate to in the slightest, story I couldn’t imagine giving anything but a 1/10 to in the slightest!!

Creepy Critic

Abaddon, which is pretty obvious as to what he’s trying to make out of the player, is the biblical and historical term for the king of an army of locusts.